Protests on September 7th and each Party's position regarding the ban on X in Brazil

É muito zangão pra pouca abelha rainha.

Musk has my vote

The problem started long before Musk entered the scene. Here are some points to bring you up to speed on what's happening:

i) It doesn't seem appropriate to read Minister Alexandre's decision in isolation. It's part of something bigger that has been going on since 2021, with the "digital militias inquiry";

ii) The existence of this inquiry itself was questionable. The way it was conducted - with resistance to the participation of the Public Prosecutor's Office; with the replacement of the Public Prosecutor's Office by ex officio acts; with the conjunction of functions in the same figure; with the confidential proceedings; with the denial of access to the defense; with the apparent infinity of the investigation; the issue of the Supreme Court becoming a universal court; the issue of the Supreme Court's jurisprudence wavering every other day on the definition of the scope of protection of the right to freedom of expression - end up generating even more questionable. This is because they would be elements easily remedied or explained;

iii) No one in Brazil seems to seriously argue that Elon Musk or Twitter are above the law. Indeed, Twitter needs a representative in the national territory - but is it the competence of the Supreme Court to analyze the existence or not of a representative? It seems to me not. Another act that could be remedied with other measures;

iv) The Supreme Court coming to Twitter to promote the summons of the platform, within the platform itself, and summon someone who does not legally represent the platform is another act that seems to be "playing to the crowd". The Supreme Court is not a game of audience, procedures should serve for something other than demoralizing the platform;

v) The Superior Electoral Court coming to Twitter, after the order to suspend the platform, and communicating through it represents a bit of an absurdity. It is somewhat reminiscent of the episode narrated by Stanislaw Ponte Preta "Arrest Sophocles". In fact, Brazil has once again become a big FEBEAPÁ;

To give you context about this reference, since you're not from Brazil:

Febeapá is a book whose title letters stand for - The Festival of Nonsense that Plagues the Country. In this book there is a short story by Stanislaw in which he portrays a situation from the 60s, the time of the Military Dictatorship in Brazil where a censor, after watching a play inspired by Sophocles' Electra, invaded the rehearsal of the play the next day to order the arrest of Sophocles because he found the content of that show absurd, and then he was informed that the author had already died more than 2400 years ago.

vi) Is Twitter's resistance to comply with the monocratic decisions of Minister Alexandre lawful? No. Are Minister Alexandre's decisions lawful? It also seems to me that they are not. But to conclude this we need to go back to understanding what is effectively the scope of protection of freedom of expression in a country that has never had much appreciation for the rule of law;

vii) The discussion Minister Alexandre vs. Musk has long since moved away from an institutional issue. It has the contours of a personal arm wrestling match in which the Supreme Court's decision simply represents anachronism: it serves no purpose. Those who liked Twitter still use it with VPN. We still replicate tweets in prints but now we take the trouble to put a disclaimer (I didn't access via VPN, I received the print from a third party). This is serious. The Court gains nothing. It does not give effectiveness to its decision and still comes out as an enemy of freedom of expression. It shows how unprepared we are to face the digital world;

viii) Still in the inquiry - regarding which we do not know how many investigated it contains, what evidence it produced, what it investigates, because it is under secrecy - the disregard of legal personality was determined, justified by an economic group in the Twitter-Starlink-Elon Musk triad. Another procedure that is absolutely atypical and whose basis is quite scarce. But again, it came to nothing. The satellites are not under Brazilian jurisdiction. Neither is the provision of internet (are we going to block the signal?). Much less the provision of content through this internet service. So we take a provider that represents 0.4% of the market and make it simply have the ability to demonstrate the Brazilian Justice system as a dinosaur;

ix) The whole issue seems to serve more as a smokescreen. After all, two weeks ago our discussion was the leak of information from Minister Alexandre's office about possible illicit (and ex officio) proceedings in the search for pretexts for removing content. An inquiry was also opened here. The rapporteur of this inquiry? Yes, him, Minister Alexandre. And we now ignore something that, if proven, has even more serious contours than the collusion of Operation Car Wash.

Also for your reference, since you're not from Brazil, Operation Car Wash was an operation that uncovered several corruption scandals, including the one that led the current president of Brazil to be imprisoned for more than 1 year, in which it was detected that the judge and the prosecutor were colluding, with the judge guiding the prosecutor on how to proceed in the case so that the defendant would be convicted.

x) In the end, I think democracy dies in darkness. Blocking accounts, demonstrations, hiding decisions, evidence, requests is absolutely atypical. Transparency is non-negotiable.

Concordo contigo, muita coisa eu mudaria na lista, para mim PSOL é extrema-esquerda. Em um Diagrama de Nolan o novo estaria mais próximo de libertário do que da direita. Porém coloquei baseado no que estavam na Wikipedia. Sei que não é a melhor fonte, kkk, mas é o que deu pra fazer de mais imparcial.